Goooood Morning (well, it´s past lunchtime here)
This year´s Christmas came early to me, to be precise, on June 22nd, 09.39 hrs. The package passed customs and was delivered to our doorstep.
This is the content of the package:
Together with the contents of mail box # 1 from Ken, I will now be able to finish all the track work, get the switches running and do all of the mountain scenery!
Oh joy, oh rapture!
To all those who contributed (Ken has not yet disclosed the names) - words cannot sufficiently express my feelings about your generous gift. Without your I would not be able to be back into active model railroading. In deep humbleness I´d like to express my sincere thanks to all of you. I hope I´ll be able to make up one day, either to you or by supporting someone else in need.
My special thanks go out to Ken, who took the time and care to arrange for all of this, even in times of own deep worries about his and his family´s future.
Thank you, Folks! You are more than just friends!
Ken - I´d like to name some places on my layout to honor the donors. Unless they wish to remain unnamed, would you be so kind to let have their names?
Lee - and a birthday to your GF!
Janie, as today´s my personal Christmas, put whatever the guys want on my tab - for the rest of the day. I pay cash, in real money and I mean $$$!
Blessings!
Good Morning!! Wow! Where’s my sunglasses? Sure is bright this morning. Oh, it’s Ulrich, must have got his package.
Coffee and the #3 breakfast special over easy please. Brenda’s home, she took Wed, Thur and Friday off. Gonna be a long week.
Why you ask? Well, the Williamsville ComMUNITY FOUNdation usually has their (our) village 4th of July celebration sometime between the first of May and the 15th of August. Whatever works out tto be convenient and doesn't interfere with folks Independence Day plans to insure a good turnout. Only in Williamsville will you get a reasoning like that for not celebrating the holiday on the day. This year I think they are going to celebrate Christmas sometime in February. Rumor. Anyway, the event happens to be this Saturday and she is trying to get all the odds and ends worked out without having to be pestered with her JOB that PAYS! She did not take my sagely advice after having been there done that too many times to count. In fact, I don’t believe I’ll ever have to buy a T-shirt again. My dismissed advice was at the meetings, when they are planning all the things they want to do and where to put things and how they should do it, when someone pipes up with a suggestion, ask them “are you going to be there to physically help? Not just now, but the day prior to and or the day of the event. If you are, continue. If not…, shut up. We don’t need arm chair quarterbacks, or sideline judges, We need boots on the ground. Oh and by the way, if you say you are going to be there and help, but are planning on waiting til the last minute or after you are pretty secure in the feeling your idea is gonna happen and then call and say you can’t make it for some hairbrained reason like my 23 year old son has to go to Peoria and I figured I’d better take him just to be safe, or I have tickets for such and such and I forgot I had them...., I will hurt you. Bad. Real bad”. Now she is down to just a couple people. In case you’re curious, I did indeed say “I told you so”. (nothing broken yet, but the event has not passed)
Ken- You do better without the spell check quietly and unbeknownst offering up words for you. (although I gotta admit some of them are hilarious. "Genital breeze" Best one yet!!!ROFL)
Bob- nice to meet you , glad you stopped in! Great story about the dining car. Don’t worry you owe nothing for the meals here unless you get Top Of Page, then virtual cash or credit /debit will do. They prefer no checks because we travel and the checks are from all over the place and can be troublesome to get cashed.
Lee- Wish…., Dorothy a happy B-day. At least she, like Brenda, prefers Carnations. Odd though, at one time Carnations were much cheaper than Roses. Now….I think I’ve been suckered in advance.
Ah wheelies on a Schwinn Sting-Ray. Brings back memories of a better time. Nah, not really better, just different.
Best get a movin.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
(two blasts on the whistle)
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Glad it finally made it there Ulrich! I will PM you all the names of the people that helped out. To be honest, I have to look them up, there where 3 Johns alone.
I was taken back with the amount of funds that was sent, I was hoping to get you a couple of turnouts, never thought we could get all 4 of them!
Hey, wait a minute! Where the stick from my yard? Bet customs stole it!
Looking forward to seeing more pictures of the layout. If things turn around for me, there will be a third box.
Enjoy and Merry Christmas Ulrich.
Ken and the Mail Box Helpers
I hate Rust
Me again!
Petra is complaining that I am spending hours at my desk, trying things out..
Those turnouts work nicely with the blue switches from the box. Just "click" the controls to the power pack and "click" the plug from the turnout to the control - there you go. Wiring made easy for someone like me who hates to solder!To power the entire layout, all I have to do is to "click" 5 plugs into the corresponding receptacles! The turnouts are also power-routing, so I can have two trains on the line, running them one at a time though. Ideal for that semi-permanent set-up of mine. Pretty darn smart, those Japanese!
As I have completed the benchwork for all the modules of my desk-top layout, the next step will be laying track. I´ll be starting on Friday, as we will go to see my parents tomorrow for their 60th wedding anniversary. We won´t be having a celebration, not even going out for dinner, just a couple of hours with them over coffee and cake, which Petra is right now preparing.My PITA brother decided not to come, as there is now celebration. This leaves without words ...
I hope your day is as good as mine!
Good Morning, Zoe, I'll have a Santa Fe mug of coffee and a cinnamon roll, please 'n' thank you!
Ulrich's like a kid on Christmas morning today.
Of course, it sounds like Dorothy felt pretty good yesterday on her birthday, too. Good job there, Lee! (Hey, sometimes we guys can manage not to fowl things up...)
Hoping Jeff gets to feeling better today than yesterday.'Young David' - thanks for keeping us updated, too.
And my belated to the Diner, Seamonster Bob!
Got a question for our true RC'ers in here - where can I find information about which Santa Fe (ATSF/AT&SF, etc.) heralds/logos/designs they used in which time period? Like I know that later they had the supersized ATSF circle and cross (I think that was when the boxcars were almost a Chinese red color...). But I don't know what word to use in my searches for the images (and their history). Wanting to have a reference that I can use to rule in/out when looking at freight cars for my CAW RR(set in the 1950's in Southwestern U.S.), which allegedly connects between the ATSF and the D&RGW... Anybody out there who can point me to a site/pages (which I don't have to bust the piggybank to join, just to see the one or two pages I need the info from)? Thanks in advance for any and all help.
I'll sit a spell at the window booth and cogitate on that...
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Morning All,
At w**k again today. It is going to be another scorcher today....can't wait for October. Had to give blood today for my dept annual physical. Six sticks later it was finally done If I was that good I would be out of a job.
Well it looks like no MRR for me until maybe Sunday, I have been overtaken by events
Ulrich- I am happy you finally received your MRR items.
Lee- I am glad I was finally able to help you out.
Everybody take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, a couple eggs over easy and an order of sour dough bread toasted and my dark roast coffee please. I'd have the #2 special, but I mentioned having THAT to my Nurse Practitioner and she almost had a heart attack........!
Mister Monster, welcome aboard! I have read your posts out in the main forum many times. Good to have you in the diner!
Got the mower back yesterday. Went out to mow some lawn after supper last night. mowed about 20', and it shut down again. This wasn't even in heavy mowing. So....... (seeding a lawn), I called the DeWalt place this morning and will be trading it in on a new (and improved) 36v self propelled battery electric one. They will give me 15% off the new mower with the trade of the old one which will more than cover the cost I paid in repairs. No mowing today as the liquid sunshine has returned to the area. Widdle Bunny Wabbits have also returned I see.... Two of them sitting outside my garden this morning trying to figure out how to get to the tasty planting I have in there.
I see Jeffrey hasn't been in this morning. Do hope he is feeling better!
Ulrich, glad you got the supplies! Have some fun.
My son should be arriving sometime soon to help me stuff the mower into the back of the Yaris... Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Todd, I paid $21 for 24 carnations, with party horns, ribbons, baby’s breath all wrapped up in paper and cellophane, from a ma and pa florist. Last year I went through a popular nationwide florist and had them delivered to her work for $80.
Curt, if you hang around long enough you’ll learn I need lots of help, LOL.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
G'd Morning Gang,
I slept in a bit today as I don't go into work until 16:15 and work through to 22:00.
Chloe, I'll have the Branchline Scramble with lots of green peppers and mushrooms and a cinnamon tea.
HIER ULRICH, you light up our lives, now we are all anxiously waiting to see you perform your magic. Get at it and enjoy the journey.
RAY, That sounds like an interesting mower. Once you get the hang of it, how about giving us all a detailed report on it.
JEFF, Brother, Where art thou ? Hope all is well with you this morning. I'm sure David can give you a hand with a few of those things as I know we all would if we were closer.
ROB, Are you going to have any trees left down there. Sure seems like your landscape has changed dramatically this year already.
GALAXY, What are the chances of being able to move to an area like Lee was mentioning.?
CHRIS, If you run out of things to report on, come on up our way as the whole southeast quarter of our Province is under water. Many communities flooded out some up to the roof lines. Three of our Dams have had to release a lot of the water as it was threatening the integrity of the dams themselves. All this water ends up in the Souris river that flows down through Minot, ND. and then back up into Canada to join the Assiniboian and Red Rivers that have been in flood stages for weeks now. This will put Winnipeg into trouble again as well as towns in Manitoba such as Souris, Wawnesa and others as well as the thousands of cottages on Lake Winnipeg. CN Charlie , Seamonster and Blind Bruce start sand bagging your layouts. Minot has already evacuated a quarter of their population as they expect water levels to be 6 to 8 feet higher than their previous worst flood. We have one town that they don't think will ever return to existance. That is the town of Roche Precee that is between Estevan and the US Border. Right now if you drive south to the border which is approximately 150 miles if going towards Minot, you see 3/4 water and 1/4 land and usually you don'r see any water from the highway. Many roads and bridges out of service and other infrstructures such as sewage and water treatment plants have been compromised. Even the Trans-Canada Highway #1 is closed in a couple of places in a 110 mile stretch east of our city. This isn't something that is going to clear up and go away in a year or two, this will be a very long term to get things back to a somewhat normal stage. Many farmers cannot plant at all others have about 5% in, But even if they have a little more dry land they can't get to it.
This is the second year of almost continuous rain here with a heavy snowfall in the middle.
Well, enough for now, you Guys must be tired of my ramblins. So I will just wish you a very good Wednesday and will check back in later.
Johnboy out....................................and looking for my Rubber Boots
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Chance of sever storms today & tonight. The problem with some of our remaining trees is that the tornado must have caused stress fractures. So, even thought they still stand, it doesn't take a whole lot to finish them off. I suspect we'll be losing more trees over time. It is what it is.
Need to start working on setting posts today, or finish that tractor shed roof. Sure hope to get back to MRRing before the end of the year but right now I'm still overwhelmed.
Have a good day y'all.
Rob
yougottawanta Jeff For some reason I trhought you lived down south all your life. Were you ever around Ulrichs neck of the woods ?
Jeff For some reason I trhought you lived down south all your life. Were you ever around Ulrichs neck of the woods ?
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Here it is - the same feeling I had Christmas 1963, when I got my first train set. 47 1/2 years of life, just whisked away! Petra tells me that I have not had that smile on my face since Christian was born
Been experimenting with a temporary setup - boy, what fun that is to see two trains running without having to use the big hook to take one of them of the track!
Where´s Jeff today? I hope he is feeling better!Any time I don´t hear from him I get worried!
Johnboy - magic? What magic? I am just cooking some plain kind of soup any of you folks can do much better! I have been told that I am my worst critic
Ray - H2 get a regular sized lawn mower into a Yaris. I remember this car having only a small trunk.
YGW - my hometown is about 400 miles north of the places Jeff has been to. 400 miles is a lot around here
Better join Petra know before she feels deserted.
TTFN
Edit:
Big of relief - Jeff´s back!
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooood Afternoon,
JOHNBOY: Pal, I hear you on the flooding. My Mom's hometown, I think, is still there...(Hamburg, Iowa). The Missouri River has taken over a lot of land it normally doesn't, putting quite a bit of prime corn ground out of production for sure this year, and probably for at least the next year as well until nutrient levels (washed away) can be built back up. Look for even higher food prices! The Omaha TV stations were talking about Hamburg...but haven't had much to say lately. I'm thinking THAT is "good news." But, water was "lapping against" a new dike hastily built first by local farmers, then later by the Corps of Engineers/National Guard. If it goes, the south half of Hamburg turns into a lake. "They," (notice how it's always "they"??) say the water won't go down until at least August at the earliest, maybe even not until fall. Seems somebody neglected to release water from "up north" earlier this year when they should've. Now, it's all coming downstream in one big bulk delivery. Yes, the finger pointing has begun!
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around pictures from Cedar Rapids' flood in 2008. Three years later, there are still parts of downtown trying to recover, and some neighborhoods THAT are still devastated.
ULRICH: The sight of a happy ULRICH is a good sight indeed! Glad your goodies finally arrived, can't wait to see what you do with it.
Tank car update: I thought I had a destination for a car load of Sodium Hydroxide...there is a paper factory in far SW Cedar Rapids which handles a lot of recycled paper. Sodium Hydroxide is also used to "de-ink" paper for recycling. VIOLA! But...even after finding a supplier in Wisconsin, the most logical routing takes the car to the CNW east-west mainline, to Beverly Yard where the car would be given to the CRANDIC, who serves the plant. In other words, it would have no reason to wind up on the Cedar Rapids Industrial Branch. I was already re-writing the company's history as construction started in '94 and it opened in '96. My era is '87-'93." Soooooooooooooooooo, I need to find a supplier who would one way or another get the car to the CCP, who would haul it to Cedar Rapids, give it to the CRANDIC, who would take it to the plant. The search continues.
Just as well, I've got two feature articles backing up on me, two high school baseball games to write a summary of...and might have a varsity double-header to cover tonight...if it don't get rained-out.
Have a good day Peoples...and let's be particularly careful out there...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Curt Webb Jeff- I lived in El Paso (east side) from 1963-1971 then moved to Germany in general area of Frankfurt. My dad was in the Army. Take care of yourself.
Jeff- I lived in El Paso (east side) from 1963-1971 then moved to Germany in general area of Frankfurt. My dad was in the Army. Take care of yourself.
Feeling somewhat better today. Back feels like it's tied in knots. We had a powerful band of thunderstorms come through this morning. The power got knocked out sometime 6:30 and 7:00 and didn't come back on until noon.
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Chloe
Some aspirin and a cold tall glass of sweet ice tea with lemon please. Its hot here for more than one reason. Yesterday the super for excavator (our subcontractor) resigns and Mr. I am a big shot (new excavator super ) shows up and proceeds to tell me where to stick my sunshine. At the end of the day he has his operator park his 953 Cat loader at the enmtrance of my site , blocking all access. So this morning I pull a William Wallace and go to pick a fight. I park my little ole cheverolet in the sales entrance and block any access into the site (you have to drive thru the sales parking to gain access to the construction entrance) , Mr I am a Big shot shows up and immediatly proceeds into a tirade and starts threatening me etc. I stand my ground and inform him if he doesnt like it to call my VP.Which he does. To make a longer story shorter. The bully backs down, my boss tells me to play nicer and I inform him there is only one way to treat a bully and that is to - BOP ! right in the ole kisser. I start to include a comment about Hitler and Chamberlain (that coward) and instead finish with a comment that apeasment never works. Of course" Mr. I am Mr. Big shot" when stood up to, changes his tune and starts acting like a human being.
Jeff - we were getting worried about you. Are you okay ?
Ulrich - I am sooo glad to see you upbeat. Hooray !
Cuda - Next time you want to help some one out like you did for Ulrich please include me.
Curt - Sounds like you would have been better off letting the vampires at you . Six sticks! Was there blood left ?
Herb/Galaxy - you guys crack me up ! I got a good laugh out you two , wow 12:30 am !
Johnboy - We have some boats around here, maybe the farmers could turn to fishing since they now have an inland sea !
LSWrr - To join or not to join ? I am not a bick fan of Walthers rolling stock ???But they do sell other stuff thats pretty good.
Howmus - battery powered mower ? How much grass do you have ? I hope just a little bit .
To all of the very detailed modelers out there (aka rivet counters) I found a product that may interest you. It is in the NMRA July mag. It is from Micro Mark "Add realistic Rivet Heads and Other Details to Any Surface...Easily , Quickly and Econmically ! " the add states. Comes in HO and O . the web site for Micro-Mark www.MicroMark.com it is being listed for $9.95 . Regularly listed as $14.95. The picture looks good at any rate ????
Some of you folks must have sent the rain you´re having over to us. We are in the midst of a bad thunderstorm. Add to that torrential rainfall and even a twister!
Roads and walkways are flooded, as well as basements. Haven´t had it that bad for long. TG we are high and dry in our flat.
CU tomorrow!
Afternoon guys
Sorry I haven't been here in a few, been busy working on some RR and life related things.
Last night I brought the BNFE reefer and a WP box I did the other to the club and added them to my train. A few people said they would like me to weather for them, no one tried to buy it from me (has happened before) Also spliced in a U30C between my 2 C30-7s (I know, usually coal power on a manifest). The lead C30-7 was a bit slow (QSI decoder) than the other 2, so I had to adjust it a little.
So far today I have added a load to one of my centerbeams, put a QSI decoder from an RSD15 into my C425 (need to do some milling and get a speaker) and stripped 5 P2K Geeps to the frame (older, non-dcc ready ones) to start re-wiring them to be usable on DCC. I have 2 harness, but I'm going to pick up some preforated circuit board from radioshack (along with a low-wattage soldering iron). A few have to have the weights milled and a couple are gonna be milled for sound decoders.
Just got back in from cleaning up the car a bit. I have another date tonight, with the same girl.
Ken, Check PMs
I'll be catching up by the RC.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
last mountain & eastern hogger GALAXY, What are the chances of being able to move to an area like Lee was mentioning.?
As Jeffrey would say "Slim to none and Slim left town".
You see it is family that ties us here. MOH's {or my InLaws} are in their 80's and in frail health. My father is late 70s but doing OK. FOR NOW. They are here so we are here at least until they pass. my mother passed in 2003. Besides we like the area, ok not so much the winters, but I could never live summers in the warmer climbs. I sweat like a stuck pig greased up for the county fair at any temp over 70*, any season. Hence the constant need I have for A/C and love having it!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Afternoon Folks.
I am off today but still dropped by work, had something I need to do. With Shaun being there I was able to get the wife let me take the Les Paul with me. I wanted to see how it sounded through the Line 6 Amp. (little back ground for the new folks, Shaun and I both play guitar and I keep a guitar and a amp at work)
I still rusty, but made big leaps forward as far as playing goes. Starting to play power cords with no real problem, still need to work on bar chords. One nice thing about playing with Shaun I am picking up on songs I did not have the cords to. Today Shaun happened to have the cords for a song I all wise wanted to play. All right Now by the band Free. Boy that dates me! While I have not mastered it, you can tell what I am playing.
Shaun worked with Berry (company's owner) and Chad (drummer) the other day and Berry wanted to know how well I could play. Shaun told him I was still rusty, but was getting better.
You Got A Want A I do hope to do a 3rd package later when things get better for me. I will let you know when I am ready to do something. Plus I will need to know what Ulrich needs. I still have around $30.00 left over from the Mail Box Buddies.
Ulrich Again, you are more than welcome and I will get you the names later today. Have you got any rolling stock yet? But the nagging question in the back of my mind, did you get my stick?
Time to install a decoder in the F7 B unit, the A unit is running just fine.
Ken
Thanks to all who have welcomed me to the diner. I'll just have a mid-afternoon cup of coffee and a donut, please. Supersize the coffee, if you will.
howmus: a battery-powered mower sound like the way to go for me. That's what my next mower is going to be, and self-propeled sounds mighty tempting, even though we've just got the standard 50X100 city lot with space out for the house and car parking. However, the mower I've got now has a B&S Classic 4-cycle engine and those things live forever. It does need looking at, though. It starts first pull when cold, but when hot, it takes about 10 pulls to get it going. Fortunately we've got an excellent backyard mechanic who services it and our snowblower so I think I'll give him a call.
Johnboy: I hear you about the flooding in Sask. My nephew in Regina sent me an email he got from someone that originated with a farmer showing photos of his flooded fields and outbuidings. What a mess. Our two provinces have never seen the likes of this flooding ever before. They say the waters won't recede until summer is over. Those poor farmers, not to mention the people around Lake Manitoba who have lost their homes and cottages.
yougottawanta: some people are just plain jackasses, to quote Oscar Leroy (maybe you don't get the TV program "Corner Gas"--it's a Canadian comedy that was set in rural Saskatchewan. Great program.) Maybe you could have started up his Cat loader and moved it? I remember back in the 50s when the sewer line was being put down our street, a bunch of us boys managed to get a bulldozer started and moving. One of the fathers came running out of his house, chased us off the machine and turned it off. As for what's seamonster food, it's trolls (with apologies to my Scandinavian friends). It's a long story. They also like cheese.
Your tale about Mr. Big Shot reminded me of a Mr. Big Shot that I encountered years ago. I worked for the electrical utility and for a few years lived in an area where there were 4 hydro-electric generating stations close together. This Mr. Big Shot used to be the superintendent of the area but was retired before I moved there. I encountered him a few times and from those encounters I can easily believe the stories I heard about him when he was in charge. Apparently he was a despot and did what he wanted when he wanted and where he wanted. As one story goes, he parked his car at a station where there was heavy machinery working doing a lot of digging. He was told to move his car as it was in the road. He declined and went into the plant. The workers used a crane to deposit his car on top of a pile of dirt and continued working. Another story goes that he parked his car at another station where workers were spray painting the outside walls. He was told to move his car or it would get paint splatters on it. He refused, of course, and went inside. The painters continued with their work and he returned to a car with little white polka dots all over it.
Ken: What is that big green thing with me? A Seamonster, of course! Actually, it's me. (Another very long story. Maybe I'll share it some time.)
CNCharlie: I probably will send you a PM some time. I understand how you feel about the lack of respect shown your late mother. My wife and I have sometimes wondered how our children and extended family will behave when we go. But, we always say that it won't matter to us because we won't be here, we'll be in a better place.
I've got another story about our move down from the North, and this one's actually train related. Because there were no roads into the area at the time, the moving company's semi-trailer had to be shipped by rail (CN). After it was loaded with our belongings and those of another family, it was shipped out on a flat car a few days before we flew out for the last time. The company had given me 3 days off to move in to our new home. The moving van was scheduled to arrive on the first of those 3 days. It didn't. It didn't arrive on the second day either. Or the third. It finally arrived at supper time on the third day. We were making repeated calls to the moving company who were making repeated calls to CN. We eventually learned that CN had lost the flat car somewhere in the city! It was a hectic evening getting beds set up for us and the children and I had to go to work the next morning leaving my wife with a house full of boxes to deal with.
Well, I may not be around the diner for a while. We're off on one of our day trips tomorrow (the only nice--read "not raining"--day this week). We plan to go north into cottage country on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg. We'll probably end up in Gimli. It's an Icelandic community and resort town. Along the way, I know I won't be able to stop myself from going through the lakeside village where my parents had a cottage and where I spent all my childhood summers and into my early 20s before the cottage was sold. Even though the cottage and the whole area has changed a lot since then, the memories keep drawing me back. My wife keeps telling me that I shouldn't go there, that I should just keep the memories instead of looking at all the changes, but I can't resist, and I know I'll be there again tomorrow. On Saturday we're driving out to attend our eldest granddaughter's high school graduation. It's an hour's drive from here, plus another 20 mins. to get through the city. 18 years old and graduating high school. They grow up too fast! I still remember holding her in the hospital the day after she was born. Sigh!
Take care, everybody
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
yougottawanta Jeff - we were getting worried about you. Are you okay ?
After the power came back on I went over and helped Mr Parks track down a short in his satellite dish. He can't get online without it. We tracked it down to a bad connection, unscrewed the connectors and dried them out then put them back together and tested the dish. It worked. I put the latex sealer on the connection and now he has to wait for it to dry. With all this humidity that's likely to be sometime tonight. I then went to my parents place and helped my father cut some 2x4's down lengthwise so one piece of 2x4 would make two pieces we could put in two doorways with low steps to serve as ramps for my mother's power chair.
Man, I just had to jump through a whole bunch of hoops! I turned my computer on when I got home and clicked the Firefox icon to access the forum. Firefox loads then all of a sudden I see the screen display something about Firefox 5.0 Beta and without me touching anything Firefox 5 downloads and installs itself then disables most of my add-ons. When I tried rolling back Firefox to Firefox 4.0.1 Firefox 5 wouldn't let me. I then went to the 'Add/Remove Software list and removed Firefox 5. Oh but it wasn't done yet! I reinstalled Firefox 4.0.1 then restarted and brought up Firefox. It was STILL Firefox 5! I removed it again the restarted the computer again. This time I deleted the Mozilla folder THEN reinstalled Firefox 4.0.1. This time when I clicked Firefox it brought up Firefox 4.0.1 like I wanted. I quickly reloaded my add-ons and bookmarks and am back in business. I also tagged the Firefox 5 download screen so the computer won't allow it to do it's thing again.
Time to head in to the house, Pizza is here!
What do you folks want to bet Ulrich sneaks out of bed, and plays with his trains tonight!
Train Front Wired the F7 A for a decoder but after testing it on DC with a Athearn RTR DC plug, I am worried. Engine just creeps along on DC power till I hit 100 power, then it seems to run at correct speed. Seems odd, ran fine on straight DC power last nigh. I will double check the wiring.
See you all Thursday God Willing.
Good Evening...
Had a tunderinboomlet come through this morning..then it got all sunny and muggy out..now we are back under a severe weather alert again....loads of fun...
I'm getting into some more kitbashing stuff...I got a couple of Pikestuff buildings and am going to use them on a diorama that I am putting together for a friend of mine's father...
Chloe, I'll have a coffee for now please...I'll be at the window booth watching for others to show up....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Evenin' folks!
Flo, I'll have the bacon cheeseburger deluxe with a side of onion rings, and a trip to the salad bar tonight. Oh. and an unsweetened iced tea, please.
Drove to Rochester to pick up the new mower and trade in the old one. Probably could have had them find out what exactly was messing it up... I figured my running it after the key was bad, I probably messed up some electronic thingy with the motor... The guy at the repair place said I was likely right. Figured the final cost to repair it would be as much as buying a new one....
Seamonster howmus: a battery-powered mower sound like the way to go for me. That's what my next mower is going to be, and self-propeled sounds mighty tempting, even though we've just got the standard 50X100 city lot with space out for the house and car parking.
howmus: a battery-powered mower sound like the way to go for me. That's what my next mower is going to be, and self-propeled sounds mighty tempting, even though we've just got the standard 50X100 city lot with space out for the house and car parking.
Bob, they are great for the small to medium lawn (up to about 1/3 acre) Yours would be a breeze. Since i bought the old one about 3 years ago, I can't tell you how many people have stopped to ask questions about it. My next door neighbor told me he is interested in the electric equipment i have and has ordered a B & D string trimmer. He borrowed mine to try out a couple weeks ago. They are sweet. The 36v mower supposedly charges on about 475 watts of electricity.... That would about 6¢ to do up to a third of an acre (although I have never gotten quite that much). No gas can, no yanking on the rope, no oil changes.... Just put the key in hold the button down and lift the handle and it mows. Very Quietly I might add. I was not terribly pleased with the lifespan of the last one, but blame myself for not getting it serviced when the problem started. Most users get 8 or more years from the original batteries and some have had them for many more years and have only had to replace the batteries once. But.... They are pricey. The one I just bought lists for $450 at the DeWalt store (and more in some other places). You can one from Amazon for about $425 w/ free shipping. With the trade in, I paid under $400 for it.
Ulrich, how do you fit a full sized mower in a Yaris??? Like this:
Just fold down the back seat and there is more than enough room to transport it. Oh the handle folds over easily for transport and for storage.
You can can store it in your shed or garage sitting up on end. Try THAT with the gas powered ones.... Here she is all ready to have at the hay field as soon as the battery gets it first full charge.
Catch you all later. If the light is green on the charger, i may give it a whirl.
Found this on Youtube yesterday. They're coming to take me away!
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Last time I saw that many cats in one place was at an old trailer down by the spillway.
Many many cats...
And on that note..remember these things?
Good evening ..
Welcome to. Seamonster Bob
I'll introduce Seamonster to three Diners (Ray, Rob, and JR) as we know them.
Don’t let Ray pull your leg about that fancy smancy little mower in the back of a shiny red car. Here is a photo of the last time we saw him hauling his his mower.
Speaking of mowing the lawn, here is a photo of Rob in GA. As you can see, he wastes no time.
JR posted, he was to be driving a truck to Ohio. Here he is now.
I'm still busy with family from Detroit. We all went to Nashville, TN to see the "Outlaws".
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry..... ROFLMAO! THAT truck reminds me of the one THAT had set for about 20 years out back of the barn when I was growin' up. My cousin and I decided to see if we could get the old thing (Ancient Ford with a 60hp V-8 and no truck bed and 4 very flat tires) running. My Dad figured it would keep us out of trouble as long as we didn't forget to do the chores, only worked on her when everything else was done, and didn't waste any money on it. He, of course knew we would never get her up and running..... Little did he know. We found out the reason Grandpa had parked the truck there was there was a broken fork in the transmission. We hauled it apart and got one of the welders up at my cousin, Don Howard's Farm Machinery, to weld it for us. We put it back together, found it would shift through all the gears, and turned our attention to the 4 flat tires. Managed to break the ancient lug nuts loose and one by one took them up and fixed the tubes in them. Next we found a 6v battery still holding a charge in the dead letter office in a tractor ready to be scraped. Got permission to take it from Don's son David. hooked it up after a good chargin' and she turned right over. Only trouble was the fuel pump was shot. Had spark in all the spark plugs even..... Tried to finiggle a fuel pump for the old girl, but no luck. We did get her running..... One of us would sit on the fender (no cover on the engine compartment) and just pour some gas down into the carburetor...... An old cardboard orange juice can worked great. Had some fun drivin' her around the back pasture, we did..... Until Dad found out what we were doing!!!! THAT photo just reminded me of THAT....
Flo, just a cup of decaf to help me relax.
Speaking of Rednecks.... Found some advise from a redneck yesterday and thought I'd share. Good advise too:
"Personal Hygiene: While ears need to be cleaned regularly, this should be done in private using one's OWN truck keys."
OH! Found the mower was fully charged after dinner tonight and so I started on the lawn. The lawn is now about 6" high due to the fact it hasn't been mowed in two and a half weeks.... New mower walked right through it with no trouble! WOW! They have made some major improvements in the new ones. This thing is powerful compared with the old one. Battery only lasted for about 1/4 of the whole lawn, but I expected that. I didn't expect I could do one quarter of my lawn in about 20 minutes though. Slow speed on the self propelled thingy is a good jogging speed! They could have slowed it down a bit more. I can't run as fast as the wide open speed anymore....!
Just remember, "A word to the wise isn't necessary; it's the stupid ones who need the advise." - Bill Cosby
Have a good one!